Do You Really Care about the Threads You Wear?
If you like looking good, you ought to fear what rising levels of inequality are doing to America’s apparel future.
It Doesn’t Help the Rest of Us When the Wealthy Go Shopping
Inequality apologists want you to believe that when the rich buy expensive new products, we all benefit. But our wallets tell a different story.
A Fossil-Fueled Fantasy
Coal-burning power plants that capture carbon aren’t worth the expense.
The Airline Industry’s Fee-for-All
Nearly every airline these days is addicted to fees.
Fly the Stingy Skies
Oh, I almost forgot the rest room fee.
Consumer Choice: As American as Apple Pie
The creation of a new genetically modified apple highlights once again the need for clear labeling of this kind of food.
Apparently, Suite Crime Does Pay
The executives responsible for the financial industry’s pervasive fraud are paying no personal price.
Big Food Fight
If the products they sell us are as great as they say, what are General Mills, Kraft, and other processed food giants hiding?
AT&T’s Upside-Down World
If we had actual competition for mobile phone services in America, AT&T’s decision to charge you more for less would never fly.
50 Years of Gutting America’s Middle Class
Walmart’s explosive growth has gutted two key pillars of the American middle class: small businesses and well-paid manufacturing jobs.
Consumers Need to Know about Those Newfangled Ingredients
Between 70 and 80 percent of the processed foods Americans eat contain genetically modified ingredients.
Pumping Gas Prices for All They’re Worth
Can our nation survive $5-a-gallon gas?
‘Tis the Season to Shop at Tiffany’s
Retail sales are up in the top 1 percent’s plutonomy, but down in the realonomy where the other 99 percent live.
Cereal Crimes
Your family’s “natural” granola may contain toxic chemicals and sewage sludge.
At Peace with Christmas
What you call credit card debt is what some other person calls a job.